While at the NEXTChurch 2017 National Gathering this week, I attended a poetry workshop where we were challenged to create a poem inspired by a bible verse. We were given five minutes to create it.
One is responsible.
Little is lost;
if it is, the world is at an end.
The other is carefree.
Much goes missing;
and when it does, there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The school "lost and found" is like a treasure hunt.
Will we find the diamond in the rough?
The water bottle in the fleece pile?
If so, there is unbridled joy in gleeful dance.
I am a man with two sons.
One is responsible.
The other is carefree.
If one of them is lost,
I am at my end.
If he is found,
the embrace is the embrace of life.
